Carrick On Suir – Streetscape

COMLA worked with TII in a series of Town and Villages to redesign the public realm in conjunction with an upgrade to a roads scheme. Carrick On Suir involved a significant investment into landscape elements as a primary component in the traffic calming process, reflecting the Design Manual for Urban Roads and Streets.

Street trees with a vertical clearance or clear stem height of 2.5 meters were planted into the existing streetscape. These were planted into structural soil and open ground level planters. The necessity of achieving a clear stem height of 2.5 meters limited the palette of appropriate street trees as availability of high clear stem heights is a requirement for TII.

In approaching the proposed works to the N76 as it relates to Carrick On Suir, site analysis was carried out to see how people and traffic used the street and how space was currently used and allocated. From this analysis we could begin to see where transition zones occurred, where the street context changed through the rural fringe into the core village areas and where improvements can be made for traffic calming, pedestrian linkages and place making.